Ezekiel 35

1 Moreover the LORD’s word came to me, saying,

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2 “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy concerning it, and say to it:

3 and tell it, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you. I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.

Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, mount Seir, and I will stretch forth my hand upon thee, and I will make thee desolate and waste.

4 I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

I will destroy thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

5 “‘“Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

Because thou hast been an everlasting enemy, and hast shut up the children of Israel in the hands of the sword in the time of their affliction, in the time of their last iniquity.

6 therefore, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you.

Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will deliver thee up to blood, and blood shall pursue thee: and whereas thou hast hated blood, blood shall pursue thee.

7 Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation. I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.

And I will make mount Seir waste and desolate: and I will take away from it him that goeth and him that returneth.

8 I will fill its mountains with its slain. The slain with the sword will fall in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses.

And I will fill his mountains with his men that are slain: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in thy torrents they shall fall that are slain with the sword.

9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

I will make thee everlasting desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God.

10 “‘“Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it,’ although the LORD was there,

Because thou hast said: The two nations, and the two lands shall be mine, and I will possess them by inheritance: whereas the Lord was there.

11 therefore, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will do according to thy wrath, and according to thy envy, which thou hast exercised in hatred to them: and I will be made known by them, when I shall have judged thee.

12 You will know that I, the LORD, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They have been laid desolate. They have been given to us to devour.’

And thou shalt know that I the Lord have heard all thy reproaches, that thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying: They are desolate, they are given to us to consume.

13 You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it.”

And you rose up against me with your mouth, and have derogated from me by your words: I have heard them.

14 The Lord GOD says: “When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

Thus saith the Lord God: When the whole earth shall rejoice, I will make thee a wilderness.

15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

As thou best rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was laid waste, so will I do to thee: thou shalt be laid waste, O mount Seir, and all Idumea: and they shall know that I am the Lord.